The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-05-13

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making Saturday a hali-holiday through
out the state.
A bill to adopt capital punishment for
murder and rape was defeated in the Mich
igan senate-l9 to ID.
The Connecticut house has passed a bill
Cvjng a uniform license Of $500 for strong
liquors and $3.50 for beer, wine, etc.
Bishop Williams OF Connecticut, senior
bishop OF the Protestant Episcopal church,
is a bachelor.
1t is rumored that all the Touring mills
will shortly shut down and remain closed
all summer.
Fire in the basement press room OF the
Eau Claire Daily Louder damaged presses
and material to the extent oI$1, 900; dam.
age to building, owned by A. D. Buck OF
Fall Creek, $1,000.
r. G. Dun eco. report increased business
at all interior Centers since the interstate
law went into effect.
The cashier OF q Joliet bank is missing,
likewise very numerous dollars,
Rev.Dr Arthur .Donnelly, DIST. Nicholas
parish, New York, is announced as the sue
cessor to the late Vicar General Quinn.
The men imprisoned in the Victoria coal
mine are thought to be lost.
j. E. Muir, who had been engaged for
many years logging at Lennahmoor, was
murdered at the railway wharf in New
Westminster, B. C. by William Shaerer.
The cause OF the trouble between the men
is supposed to be a longstanding one.
Shaerer, who was disChacging lumber from
a scow, deliberately walked up to where
Muir was standing and stabbed him repeat
eddy. Shaerer then threw his knife into
the water and quietly gave himself up.
Muir died in a few minutes, and on exam
nation eleven stabs were found between
the neck and lower part OF the body.
Oscar B. Farnham, OF Boston, aged fifty
years, Of the firm OF Holt, Adams & Co,
attempted suicide by taking rat poison,
hanging himself to a gas fixture and turn.
ing on the gas. He is a 81, 900 embezzler,
and when pressed to explain certain
transactions refused.
Jefferson Davis has written a review Of
Gen. Wolseley's Life OF Gen. Lee" Mr..
Davis takes exception to many OF the Eng
lishman's statements, and while not find
ing iault with the superlative opinion OF Gen.
Lees military ability, he shows very plainly
that he considers Gen. Wolseley's criticisms
81 other Southern leaders unjust and un-
warranted.
A bill forming a state constabulary to
enforce the liquor Law vas passed by the
Michigan house and given immediate effect.
The bill provides + the appointment by
the governor OF state marshal, at a salary
OF 81, 200, with power TO appoint a force
Of deputy state marshals throughout the
state, who are charged with the duty OF lei
forcing the liquor law, and are paid by
the counties. The practical effect OF the
law is to take all prosecutions from the
prosecuting attorneys and other local Off
GERS and give them to the state.
There is trouble ahead for a number OF
county seats in Dakota. A law of last
winter provides that new elections for the
location OF county seats may be held in
all the counties where the original or pres.
ent location was made by less than a
majority vote. This is likely to raise par
ticular cain in a good many places.
The private bank OF 7. r. Heard, Rich
mond, Va, has failed. Liabilities sea-
900; assets $62, 900.
At Billings, Mont, a fire broke out in a
range of frame buildings on Minnesota
avenue, totally destroying NJ. b. Raae.
makers saloon and damaging adjoining
buildings. The fire is supposed to have
been of incendiary origin.
A p~ostoffce has been established at
Mount Carmel, Cavalier county, Oak.
Pensions granted: Minnesota-D. Gala
CHAN, st. Paul; j.. Freq, La Crescent; p.
Quiggle (deceased), Pelican Rapids; i. G.
st. John, Granger; o. Lewis, Grand Mead
ow. Dakota-H. G. Thorpe, Bridgewater;
O. Lund, Vsrmillion;D. Stewart, Arlington;
ID. Weekly, Millett; j.. HYDE. Ycrmillion; r.
Brown, Canton, j. Morton, Bridgewater.
The czarina has donated 100, 600 rou.
bles to Gen. Gresses, project OF st. Peters
burg, in recognition Of his services in frus-
trating the recent plot against the czar'e
life, and the car has granted him a pension
OF 5000 as a reward for his services in mr.
resting nihilists.
Up to this timefourty-l four railroad com-
panies have filed with the commission for
NAL petitions asking to be relieved from
section a.. Probably as many more have
been received and returned for further in
formation. a much larger number has
been received from trade organizations,
private corporations and individuals pro-
testing against the suspension OF section A
in particular cases.
The car thinks he win commute the SEN
tence OF the nihilist assassins.
Marquis Salisbury is to be made a duke
in a few days.
James Grant, the novelist, died in Lon
don. He was sixty-four years old.
The Mason City u Fort Dodge railroad,
in Iowa, has filed its formal petition for
exclusion from the provisions OF the long
and short haul clause. The road is purely
a territorial road, bat it crosses five trunk
lines, and does a great of business with
them in freight for outside points.
Roscoe Conkling has been remarkably
fortunate in his real estate investments at
Washington.
Secretary Whitney has decided to order
the repair OF the United States steamship
Hartford, nov at Maria Island, Cal.
The wife o iGen. Sheridanis gu tie serious.
ly indisposed.
The debate on the Time-Dillon episode
80 the house 81 commons ends, OF course,
in favor Of the Tory government.